SABOTAGE ON WARSHIPS
FOUR MEN DISCHARGED (UniMrt Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 23th March. Following an inquiry by Secret Service officers working in conjunction with the | local police, four men were discharged j from the Royal dockyard at Plymouth jin connection with recent cases of saboti age on British warships at Devonport. j The “Daily Telegraph” states that all ‘firms carrying out Government contracts have been warned against employing one of these men though he is a skilled j craftsman. Trade Union officials took up J the case but dropped it after information from the Admiralty. It is uudev- ‘ stood that’ the man was previously inj volvcd in a strike in an aircraft factory rand was connected .with several oilier disputes, “We deplore the sabotage inj cidents as much as 'all right thinking citizens,” said Mr Baykell, a Trade Union official who is secretary of the Ad- . iniralty Joint Industrial Council. “They are a reflection on British workmen who, with very few exceptions, do not stoop to such behaviour.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 March 1936, Page 10
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